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2. Elevating the RRE Framework for Geospatial Analysis with Visual Programming Platforms: An Exploration with Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME
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Lingbo Liu, Fahui Wang, Xiaokang Fu, Tobias Kötter, Kevin Sturm, Weihe Wendy Guan, and Shuming Bao
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Geospatial Analysis ,Reproducibility, replicability, and expandability (RRE) ,Visual Programming ,Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME ,Geospatial Knowledge Tree ,Spatial Accessibility ,Physical geography ,GB3-5030 ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 - Abstract
Reproducibility, replicability, and expandability (RRE) have emerged as fundamental concerns in the realm of scientific research and development. Wherein, devising effective solutions for RRE within geospatial analysis stands out as a particularly critical challenge that demands immediate attention. Although there has been an evolution from basic reproducibility of code and data to a more comprehensive cyberinfrastructure, this integrated solution is still grappling with issues of limited user accessibility, steep learning curves particularly in coding skills, and difficulties in achieving collaboration with other data science platforms This study proposes a framework that combines open-source GIS with visual programming platforms, grounded in principles of standardization and educationalization, to advance the RRE framework in geographic analysis. Using the Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME as an example, we demonstrate the platform’s adaptability and utility through case studies in a recent textbook with an in-depth illustration of spatial accessibility analysis, specifically via the Generalized Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (G2SFCA) method. Our findings shed light on the transformative potential of such an integrative strategy, offer fresh perspectives for enhancing the RRE in geospatial analysis and craft a well-structured, intuitive, and extensive GIS knowledge tree.
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- 2024
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3. Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME
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Lingbo Liu, Xiaokang Fu, Tobias Kötter, Kevin Sturm, Carsten Haubold, Weihe Wendy Guan, Shuming Bao, and Fahui Wang
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Geospatial analytics ,KNIME analytics platform ,GIS ,Visual programming ,Replicability and reproducibility ,Computer software ,QA76.75-76.765 - Abstract
The Geospatial Analytics Extension for KNIME (GAEK) is an innovative tool designed to integrate visual programming with geospatial analytics, streamlining GIS education and research in social sciences. GAEK simplifies access for users with an intuitive, visual interface for complex spatial analysis tasks and contributes to the organization of the GIS Knowledge Tree through its geospatial analytics nodes. This paper discusses GAEK's architecture, functionalities, and its transformative impact on GIS applications. While GAEK significantly enhances user experience and research reproducibility, future updates aim to expand its functionality and optimize its bundled environment.
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- 2024
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4. Taking the pulse of COVID-19: a spatiotemporal perspective
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Chaowei Yang, Dexuan Sha, Qian Liu, Yun Li, Hai Lan, Weihe Wendy Guan, Tao Hu, Zhenlong Li, Zhiran Zhang, John Hoot Thompson, Zifu Wang, David Wong, Shiyang Ruan, Manzhu Yu, Douglas Richardson, Luyao Zhang, Ruizhi Hou, You Zhou, Cheng Zhong, Yifei Tian, Fayez Beaini, Kyla Carte, Colin Flynn, Wei Liu, Dieter Pfoser, Shuming Bao, Mei Li, Haoyuan Zhang, Chunbo Liu, Jie Jiang, Shihong Du, Liang Zhao, Mingyue Lu, Lin Li, Huan Zhou, and Andrew Ding
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big data ,earth system ,emergency ,geospatial sciences ,epidemics ,applications ,Mathematical geography. Cartography ,GA1-1776 - Abstract
The sudden outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) swept across the world in early 2020, triggering the lockdowns of several billion people across many countries, including China, Spain, India, the U.K., Italy, France, Germany, Brazil, Russia, and the U.S. The transmission of the virus accelerated rapidly with the most confirmed cases in the U.S., India, Russia, and Brazil. In response to this national and global emergency, the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center brought together a taskforce of international researchers and assembled implementation strategies to rapidly respond to this crisis, for supporting research, saving lives, and protecting the health of global citizens. This perspective paper presents our collective view on the global health emergency and our effort in collecting, analyzing, and sharing relevant data on global policy and government responses, human mobility, environmental impact, socioeconomical impact; in developing research capabilities and mitigation measures with global scientists, promoting collaborative research on outbreak dynamics, and reflecting on the dynamic responses from human societies.
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- 2020
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5. Large-Scale High-Resolution Coastal Mangrove Forests Mapping Across West Africa With Machine Learning Ensemble and Satellite Big Data
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Xue Liu, Temilola E. Fatoyinbo, Nathan M. Thomas, Weihe Wendy Guan, Yanni Zhan, Pinki Mondal, David Lagomasino, Marc Simard, Carl C. Trettin, Rinki Deo, and Abigail Barenblitt
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coastal environment ,land cover and land use ,mangrove forests ,remote sensing ,machine learning ,high resolution ,Science - Abstract
Coastal mangrove forests provide important ecosystem goods and services, including carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation, and hazard mitigation. However, they are being destroyed at an alarming rate by human activities. To characterize mangrove forest changes, evaluate their impacts, and support relevant protection and restoration decision making, accurate and up-to-date mangrove extent mapping at large spatial scales is essential. Available large-scale mangrove extent data products use a single machine learning method commonly with 30 m Landsat imagery, and significant inconsistencies remain among these data products. With huge amounts of satellite data involved and the heterogeneity of land surface characteristics across large geographic areas, finding the most suitable method for large-scale high-resolution mangrove mapping is a challenge. The objective of this study is to evaluate the performance of a machine learning ensemble for mangrove forest mapping at 20 m spatial resolution across West Africa using Sentinel-2 (optical) and Sentinel-1 (radar) imagery. The machine learning ensemble integrates three commonly used machine learning methods in land cover and land use mapping, including Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM), and Neural Network (NN). The cloud-based big geospatial data processing platform Google Earth Engine (GEE) was used for pre-processing Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 data. Extensive validation has demonstrated that the machine learning ensemble can generate mangrove extent maps at high accuracies for all study regions in West Africa (92%–99% Producer’s Accuracy, 98%–100% User’s Accuracy, 95%–99% Overall Accuracy). This is the first-time that mangrove extent has been mapped at a 20 m spatial resolution across West Africa. The machine learning ensemble has the potential to be applied to other regions of the world and is therefore capable of producing high-resolution mangrove extent maps at global scales periodically.
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- 2021
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6. Assessing Reliability of Chinese Geotagged Social Media Data for Spatiotemporal Representation of Human Mobility
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Lingbo Liu, Ru Wang, Weihe Wendy Guan, Shuming Bao, Hanchen Yu, Xiaokang Fu, and Hongqiang Liu
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human mobility ,social media ,geotagged ,Sina Weibo ,Baidu Qianxi ,LBS ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
Understanding the space-time dynamics of human activities is essential in studying human security issues such as climate change impacts, pandemic spreading, or urban sustainability. Geotagged social media posts provide an open and space-time continuous data source with user locations which is convenient for studying human movement. However, the reliability of Chinese geotagged social media data for representing human mobility remains unclear. This study compares human movement data derived from the posts of Sina Weibo, one of the largest social media software in China, and that of Baidu Qianxi, a high-resolution human movement dataset from ‘Baidu Map’, a popular location-based service in China with 1.3 billion users. Correlation analysis was conducted from multiple dimensions of time periods (weekly and monthly), geographic scales (cities and provinces), and flow directions (inflow and outflow), and a case study on COVID-19 transmission was further explored with such data. The result shows that Sina Weibo data can reveal similar patterns as that of Baidu Qianxi, and that the correlation is higher at the provincial level than at the city level and higher at the monthly scale than at the weekly scale. The study also revealed spatial variations in the degree of similarity between the two sources. Findings from this study reveal the values and properties and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of human mobility data extracted from Weibo tweets, providing a reference for the proper use of social media posts as the data sources for human mobility studies.
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- 2022
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7. COVID-19 impact on excess deaths of various causes in the United States.
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Akhil Kumar, Yogya Kalra, Weihe Wendy Guan, Vansh Tibrewal, Rupali Batta, and Andrew Chen
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- 2022
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8. Building an Open Resources Repository for COVID-19 Research.
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Tao Hu 0004, Weihe Wendy Guan, Xinyan Zhu, Yuanzheng Shao, Lingbo Liu, Jing Du, Hongqiang Liu, Huan Zhou 0007, Jialei Wang, Bing She, Luyao Zhang 0001, Zhibin Li, Peixiao Wang, Yicheng Tang, Ruizhi Hou, Yun Li 0005, Dexuan Sha, Yifan Yang, Ben Lewis 0001, Devika Kakkar, and Shuming Bao
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- 2020
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9. Modeling spatiotemporal pattern of agriculture-feasible land in China.
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Weihe Wendy Guan, Kang Wu, and Fei Carnes
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- 2016
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10. Understanding Today's Online GIS User Through the Lens of a WorldMap Survey.
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Weihe Wendy Guan, Alenka Poplin, and Benjamin G. Lewis
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- 2015
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11. COVID-19 impact on excess deaths of various causes in the United States
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Rupali Batta, Vansh Tibrewal, Yogya Kalra, Weihe Wendy Guan, Andrew Chen, and Akhil Kumar
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,business.industry ,Environmental health ,Pandemic ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Medicine ,Misinformation ,business ,Computer Science Applications - Abstract
Media regarding COVID-19 fatality counts is crucial, affecting policy and health measures nationwide. However, misinformation regarding other causes of death has led to dubious claims about the ser...
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- 2021
12. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform.
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Yongming Xu, Benjamin G. Lewis, and Weihe Wendy Guan
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- 2019
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13. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform
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Yongming Xu, Benjamin Lewis, and Weihe Wendy Guan
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- 2022
14. The Geography of Geography
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Weihe Wendy Guan
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- 2022
15. Embracing Geographic Analysis Beyond Geography: Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis Enters 5th Year.
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Weihe Wendy Guan and Peter K. Bol
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- 2012
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16. WorldMap - a geospatial framework for collaborative research.
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Weihe Wendy Guan, Peter K. Bol, Benjamin G. Lewis, Matthew Bertrand, Merrick Lex Berman, and Jeffrey C. Blossom
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- 2012
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17. Understanding the Ecosystem of Geospatial Research and Service in Universities
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Elizabeth Hess and Weihe Wendy Guan
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Service (business) ,Geospatial analysis ,business.industry ,Field (Bourdieu) ,Flourishing ,05 social sciences ,Environmental resource management ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,0507 social and economic geography ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Library and Information Sciences ,computer.software_genre ,Ecosystem ,Business ,050703 geography ,computer - Abstract
The study of location and location-based phenomena is a flourishing field. Many universities have grown their research and/or services in this field (often called GIS), established centers that are...
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- 2020
18. Spatial Variations of Village-Level Environmental Variables from Satellite Big Data and Implications for Public Health–Related Sustainable Development Goals
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Xue Liu, Rockli Kim, Weixing Zhang, Weihe Wendy Guan, and S. V. Subramanian
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public health ,child malnutrition ,sustainable development goals (SDGs) ,SDG 3 ,environment variables ,satellite big data ,spatial variations ,correlation analysis ,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Building and Construction ,Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law - Abstract
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include 17 interlinked goals designed to be a blueprint for the world’s nations to achieve a better and more sustainable future, and the specific SDG 3 is a public health–related goal to ensure healthy living and promote well-being for all population groups. To facilitate SDG planning, implementation, and progress monitoring, many SDG indicators have been developed. Based on the United Nations General Assembly resolutions, SDG indicators need to be disaggregated by geographic locations and thematic environmental and socioeconomic characteristics for achieving the most accurate planning and progress assessment. High-resolution data such as those captured at the village level can provide comparatively more precise insights into the different socioeconomic and environmental factors relevant to SDGs, therefore enabling more effective sustainable development decision-making. Using India as our study area and the child malnutrition indicators stunting, underweight, and wasting as examples of public health–related SDG indicators, we have demonstrated a process to effectively derive environmental variables at the village level from satellite big datasets on a cloud platform for SDG research and applications. Spatial analysis of environmental variables regarding vegetation, climate, and terrain have shown spatial grouping patterns across the entire study area, with each village group having different statistics. Correlation analysis between these environmental variables and stunting, underweight, and wasting indicators show a meaningful relationship between these indicators and vegetation index, land surface temperature, rainfall, elevation, and slope. Identifying the spatial variation patterns of environmental variables at the village level and their correlations with child malnutrition indicators can be an invaluable tool to facilitate a clearer understanding of the causes of child malnutrition and to improve area-specific SDG 3 implementation planning. This analysis can also provide meaningful support in assessing and monitoring SDG implementation progress at the village level by spatially predicting SDG indicators using available socioeconomic and environmental independent variables. The methodology used in this study has the potential to be applied to other similar regions, especially low-to-middle income countries where a high number of children are severely affected by malnutrition, as well as to other environmentally related SDGs, such as Goal 1 (No Poverty) and Goal 2 (Zero Hunger).
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- 2022
19. Racial Segregation, Testing Site Access, and COVID-19 Incidence Rate in Massachusetts, USA
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Xinyue Ye, Shuming Bao, Xinyan Zhu, Bing She, Regina Liu, Weihe Wendy Guan, Changzhen Wang, Han Yue, and Tao Hu
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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,spatial regression ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,lcsh:Medicine ,01 natural sciences ,Health Services Accessibility ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,COVID-19 incidence rate ,Negatively associated ,Health care ,access to testing site ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0101 mathematics ,Social Segregation ,business.industry ,Incidence ,Social distance ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,lcsh:R ,010102 general mathematics ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,COVID-19 ,Outbreak ,Health Status Disparities ,Hispanic or Latino ,World population ,Overcrowding ,Black or African American ,Geography ,Massachusetts ,racial segregation ,business ,Demography - Abstract
The U.S. has merely 4% of the world population, but contains 25% of the world&rsquo, s COVID-19 cases. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S., Massachusetts has been leading other states in the total number of COVID-19 cases. Racial residential segregation is a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. Moreover, disparities of access to health care have a large impact on COVID-19 cases. Thus, this study estimates racial segregation and disparities in testing site access and employs economic, demographic, and transportation variables at the city/town level in Massachusetts. Spatial regression models are applied to evaluate the relationships between COVID-19 incidence rate and related variables. This is the first study to apply spatial analysis methods across neighborhoods in the U.S. to examine the COVID-19 incidence rate. The findings are: (1) Residential segregations of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Black/African Americans have a significantly positive association with COVID-19 incidence rate, indicating the higher susceptibility of COVID-19 infections among minority groups. (2) Non-Hispanic Black/African Americans have the shortest drive time to testing sites, followed by Hispanic, Non-Hispanic Asians, and Non-Hispanic Whites. The drive time to testing sites is significantly negatively associated with the COVID-19 incidence rate, implying the importance of the accessibility of testing sites by all populations. (3) Poverty rate and road density are significant explanatory variables. Importantly, overcrowding represented by more than one person per room is a significant variable found to be positively associated with COVID-19 incidence rate, suggesting the effectiveness of social distancing for reducing infection. (4) Different from the findings of previous studies, the elderly population rate is not statistically significantly correlated with the incidence rate because the elderly population in Massachusetts is less distributed in the hotspot regions of COVID-19 infections. The findings in this study provide useful insights for policymakers to propose new strategies to contain the COVID-19 transmissions in Massachusetts.
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- 2020
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20. Building an Open Resources Repository for COVID-19 Research
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Lingbo Liu, Xinyan Zhu, Tao Hu, Shuming Bao, Bing She, Hongqiang Liu, Weihe Wendy Guan, Devika Kakkar, Dexuan Sha, Jing Du, Jialei Wang, Yifan Yang, Ben Lewis, Peixiao Wang, Yuanzheng Shao, Luyao Zhang, Ruizhi Hou, Huan Zhou, Yun Li, Zhibin Li, and Yicheng Tang
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Information management ,Geographic mobility ,Geographic information system ,business.industry ,Data management ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Pharmaceutical Science ,02 engineering and technology ,Information repository ,Data science ,Business informatics ,03 medical and health sciences ,Open data ,0302 clinical medicine ,Geography ,Social media ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Economic impact analysis ,business ,Spatial analysis ,021101 geological & geomatics engineering - Abstract
The COVID-19 outbreak is a global pandemic declared by the World Health Organization, with rapidly increasing cases in most countries. A wide range of research is urgently needed for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic, such as transmissibility, geographic spreading, risk factors for infections, and economic impacts. Reliable data archive and sharing are essential to jump-start innovative research to combat COVID-19. This research is a collaborative and innovative effort in building such an archive, including the collection of various data resources relevant to COVID-19 research, such as daily cases, social media, population mobility, health facilities, climate, socioeconomic data, research articles, policy and regulation, and global news. Due to the heterogeneity between data sources, our effort also includes processing and integrating different datasets based on GIS (Geographic Information System) base maps to make them relatable and comparable. To keep the data files permanent, we published all open data to the Harvard Dataverse (https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/2019ncov), an online data management and sharing platform with a permanent Digital Object Identifier number for each dataset. Finally, preliminary studies are conducted based on the shared COVID-19 datasets and revealed different spatial transmission patterns among mainland China, Italy, and the United States.
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- 2020
21. Modeling spatiotemporal pattern of agriculture-feasible land in China
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Kang Wu, Weihe Wendy Guan, and Fei Carnes
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Geographic information system ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,0211 other engineering and technologies ,Spatiotemporal pattern ,021107 urban & regional planning ,02 engineering and technology ,Land cover ,01 natural sciences ,Data modeling ,Geography ,Agriculture ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,business ,China ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Published
- 2016
22. Understanding Today's Online GIS User Through the Lens of a WorldMap Survey
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Alenka Poplin, Benjamin G. Lewis, and Weihe Wendy Guan
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Open source ,Knowledge management ,Geography ,Demographics ,Work (electrical) ,business.industry ,Skill level ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Survey result ,business ,Publication ,Through-the-lens metering - Abstract
WorldMap is an open source online mapping application which aims to lower barriers for scholars who wish to visualize, analyze, organize, present, and publish mapped information. In late 2013, 290 respondents among the 8,000 registered users participated in an online survey in which they described their activities, purposes, experiences, and preferences regarding the system. Participants also described their professional background, GIS skill level, age, gender, and country of work. This study analyzes the results of the survey, by summarizing the responses to each question independently and by examining the relationships and dependencies of these answers across the different questions to try to better understand why users responded the way they did. The study is based on the user-centered design (UCD) approach. We aim to use the survey results to improve our understanding of user demographics and needs. Findings from this study will be used to guide WorldMap improvements, and we hope the findings will also shed light on the broader requirements of online GIS users.
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- 2015
23. Evaluating the Current State of Geospatial Software as a Service Platforms: A Comparison Study
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Benjamin G. Lewis, Weihe Wendy Guan, and Alenka Poplin
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Geospatial analysis ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Software as a service ,Comparison study ,Snapshot (computer storage) ,Web mapping ,Overlay ,computer.software_genre ,business ,Data science ,computer ,Collaborative mapping - Abstract
The goal of this chapter is to evaluate and compare Geospatial Software as a Service (GSaaS) platforms oriented toward providing basic mapping capabilities to non-GIS experts. These platforms allow users to organize spatial materials in layers, perform overlay and basic visual analysis, and share both final maps and the processes used to create them with remote collaborators. The authors gathered data on the characteristics of 15 platforms through an online survey, then summarized the results and created an Excel tool to enable users to sift through the data to identify platforms based on need. This study presents a snapshot of the current GSaaS landscape, summarizes current capabilities, points out weaknesses, and considers the potential of this class of application.
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- 2017
24. WorldMap – a geospatial framework for collaborative research
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Matthew Bertrand, Merrick Lex Berman, Jeffrey C. Blossom, Weihe Wendy Guan, Peter K. Bol, and Benjamin G. Lewis
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Volunteered geographic information ,Knowledge management ,Geospatial analysis ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Geomatics ,computer.software_genre ,Computer Science Applications ,Promotion (rank) ,Geography ,Data quality ,Component-based software engineering ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Comparative historical research ,Web mapping ,business ,computer ,media_common - Abstract
WorldMap is a web-based, map-centric data exploration system built on open-source geospatial technology at Harvard University. It is designed to serve collaborative research and teaching, but is also accessible to the general public. This article explains WorldMap's basic functions through several historical research projects, demonstrating its flexible scale (from neighborhood to continent) and diverse research themes (social, political, economic, cultural, infrastructural, etc.). Also shared in this article are our experiences in handling technical and institutional challenges during system development, such as synchronization of software components being developed by multiple organizations; juggling competing priorities for serving individual requests and developing a system that will enable users to support themselves; balancing promotion of the system usage with constraints on infrastructure investment; harnessing volunteered geographic information while managing data quality; as well as protecting c...
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- 2012
25. Applying GIS Methods to Public Health Research at Harvard University
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Jeffrey C. Blossom, Julia L. Finkelstein, Weihe Wendy Guan, and Bonnie Burns
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GIS and public health ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Geography ,Workflow ,Public participation GIS ,Geographic analysis ,Public health ,Geocoding ,medicine ,Work flow ,Library and Information Sciences ,Data science - Abstract
The Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard University supports research and teaching that relies on geographic information. This includes supporting geographic analysis for public health research at Harvard. This article reviews geographic concepts that apply to public health, pertinent data available in geographic format, and GIS analytical techniques. The work-flow methodology the CGA has developed for conducting research with geographic data will be presented, highlighting successful practices to follow and pitfalls to avoid. Applications of this work flow are illustrated through an in-depth discussion of specific case studies in public health research at the university.
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- 2011
26. Enabling Geographic Research Across Disciplines: Building an Institutional Infrastructure for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University
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Weihe Wendy Guan, Bonnie Burns, Julia L. Finkelstein, and Jeffrey C. Blossom
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Service (systems architecture) ,Geospatial analysis ,Geography ,Geographic analysis ,Digital resources ,Library classification ,Organizational structure ,Library and Information Sciences ,computer.software_genre ,computer ,Data science - Abstract
Founded in 1818, the Harvard Map Collection (HMC) is the oldest map collection in America, holding 400,000 maps, more than 6,000 atlases, and thousands of reference books. HMC has a strong commitment to digital resources, and it manages the Harvard Geospatial Library, a foundation for geospatial data service at Harvard. The Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard University was founded in 2006, independent of the library system, to serve the entire university. This article presents the history, organizational structure, and operational model of CGA and HMC, reviews achievements, lessons learned, suggests future improvements, and reviews GIS-related medical research at Harvard.
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- 2011
27. Embracing Geographic Analysis beyond Geography
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Weihe (Wendy) Guan and Peter K. Bol
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Without a department of geography, Harvard University established the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) in 2006 to support research and teaching of all disciplines across the University with emerging geospatial technologies. In the past four and a half years, CGA built an institutional service infrastructure and unleashed an increasing demand on geographic analysis in many fields. CGA services range from helpdesk, project consultation, training, hardware/software administration, community building, to system development and methodology research. Services often start as an application of existing GIS technology, eventually contributing to the study of geographic information science in many ways. As a new generation of students and researchers growing up with Google Earth and the like, their demand for geospatial services will continue to push CGA into new territories.
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- 2013
28. Enabling geographic research for health professionals at Harvard University
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Jeff Blossom, Julia L. Finkelstein, Weihe Wendy Guan, and Bonnie Burns
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Knowledge management ,Geospatial analysis ,Geographic information system ,business.industry ,Public health ,Health geography ,Medical research ,computer.software_genre ,Data science ,GIS and public health ,Workflow ,Documentation ,medicine ,Sociology ,business ,computer - Abstract
This paper will detail how the Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard Map Collection, and Harvard Geospatial Library work together to enable medical and public health research across Harvard University. It will discuss geographic concepts that apply to medicine and public health, pertinent data available in geographic format, and analytical techniques. The workflow methodology the CGA has developed for conducting medical research with geographic data will be presented, highlighting successful practices to follow and pitfalls to avoid. Applications of this workflow will be illustrated through the documentation of specific projects in medical and public health research at the University.
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- 2011
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